“We never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe,” Michael Sippey, a Twitter vice president, said in a blog post.

Sippey said that “users will once again be able to tell that they’ve been blocked.”

“We believe this is not ideal, largely due to the retaliation against blocking users by blocked users (and sometimes their friends) that often occurs, he added. \”Some users worry just as much about post-blocking retaliation as they do about pre-blocking abuse.\”

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